Re: Saving attachments

[Erik Hetzner <egh@e6h.org>]

Hi Greg,

That’s strange. It does seems you also need to set:

  (setq mime-play-delete-file-immediately nil)

It might be good to change this as a default. I’m not sure how many
programs work well with this set to `t`, the default.

I have no idea how this works with KDE, though, as I don’t use it.

best, Erik

At Thu, 09 Oct 2014 21:50:07 +1100,
Greg Bognar wrote:
> 
> Hi Erik,
> 
> Thanks for the tip.  Unfortunately, I cannot make this work reliably.  I
> tested on two computers (both running KDE).  At first, pressing `e' does not
> give you the prompt, but then it stops working and reverts to the old
> behavior.
> 
> I can't figure out why.  Perhaps there is something in my customizations.
> I'll do some more testing.
> 
> Pressing `v' did not work at all.
> 
> Cheers,
> Greg
> 
> On Tue, 07 Oct 2014 21:59:36 -0700, Erik Hetzner wrote:
> > Hi Greg,
> > 
> > Here is a solution that I came up with, if you a modern desktop. I
> > have tried this with a number of messages with different types of
> > attachments, but I’m not sure if it will work universally.
> > 
> > First,
> > 
> >   (setq mime-view-mailcap-files '("~/.mailcap"))
> > 
> > This needs to be done *before* SEMI is loaded. You can use
> > customize-variable for this. Next, use the following (and only the
> > following) in your ~/.mailcap file:
> > 
> >   application/*; xdg-open %s
> >   image/*; xdg-open %s
> >   text/*; xdg-open %s
> >   video/*; xdg-open %s
> >   audio/*; xdg-open %s
> > 
> > Finally:
> > 
> >   (setq mime-play-find-every-situations nil)
> > 
> > This depends on having a command, `xdg-open`, that can deal with all
> > types of files. This should be present on modern Linux desktops. I
> > believe there is a similar command on a Mac.
> > 
> > Now I think that using `v` or `e` will find only one solution for
> > every media type, either open in xdg-open or save using
> > wl-mime-save-content.
> > 
> > best, Erik
> > 
> > At Tue, 07 Oct 2014 21:30:44 +1100, Greg Bognar wrote:
> > > When I try to save an attachment by pressing `e'
> > > (`mime-preview-extract-current-entity'), I get a prompt "Methods:".  Its
> > > two options are `mime-save-content' and ` wl-mime-save-content'.  The
> > > two functions do the same thing in slightly different ways.
> > > 
> > > Is there a way to avoid having this prompt each time I save an attachment?
> > > Is there a variable that can record my preference?  It should not be
> > > necessary to go through this step every time.
> > > 
> > > (Actually, I think the same question applies to
> > > `mime-preview-play-current-entity' -- it should be possible to specify the
> > > program(s) one uses to view attachments.)
> > > 
> > > Any tips would be appreciated,
> > > Greg

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